"Emerald and Mercury from Haven, versus Coco and Yatsuhashi from Beacon!" Port's voice boomed across the stadium.

A rabbit faunus from the stands cheered on her teammates, guessed Ruby, "Good luck you two!"

A patch of tall grassy plains which has a single tree and some rocks; the ruins of a city, complete with buildings holding shattered windows and rubble among the pavement; a hot spring containing geyser spots along a small river and some blue Dust crystal growths; and a familiar section of dense forest.

Coco had lower her designer glasses down to the tip of her nose to examine her opponents," Love the outfit, kid!"

Emerald smirked at Coco, " I'll try not to get blood on it."

Yatsuhashi unleashed his sword from his back and got into a fighting stance," I can't promise you'll leave without a scratch."

"I won't be the one bleeding." Retorted Emerald as she stretched her arms.

"Oh~ I like her!"

Port counts down to start the match, "3, 2, 1, begin!"

Emerald and Mercury stalk back into the tall grass. Yatsuhashi and Coco smile at each other before the fashionista pulls her Gatling gun and begins to mow down the field of grass as the crowd roars in excitement. Once she calmed down she had noticed that the green and grey pair were not in the field.

"Huh?"

A girl with a black bow in the stands warns Coco,"Look out!"

Mercury comes shooting down from the top, aiming for Coco but, the gentle giant pushed her out of the way and blocks Mercury's kicks with his massive blade, pushing him back. Coco takes this chance to open fire at him again but, Mercury was able to dodge her bullets.

Ruby heard someone say, "He's good!"

The guy who complimented Mercury was then asked, " Yeah, but where's the girl?"

Mercury reached the opposing pair and unarmed Coco as he evaded Yatsu's blade, then giving a double kick at the giant warrior before skidding over Coco's continued bullet shower. He lands on top of her barrel and delivers a hard kick to Coco's face, leaping over another attack of Yatsuhashi, only to get hit, leaving Coco's muzzle to stare at her teammate. The crowd seemed to stand still, until Coco compressed her Gatling gun into her fashionable purse, swinging at Mercury with the aid of Yatsuhashi. Mercury smirks as he skillfully retreated, launching two blasts from his boots at the two teammates of team CFVY, who both dodged in time.

Coco is unfazed by the one shot, but looks surprised at the dozens of them now spiraling around the handstand-spinning Mercury until he sends all of them at his enemies, a barrage of light and smoke surrounding them that provides the perfect cover for Mercury to appear behind the two. He grabs the both of them by their arms and delivers a flurry of kicks that knocks them back, looking back as a chain comes out from the forest trees to wrap around Coco and pulls her back.

"Coco!" Yastuhashi yells at the forest where his teammate has been taken.

Ring ring ring.

"Hello?" Ruby answered a bit annoyed as she was disrupted from a very intriguing fight.

"Ruby, I'd like you to come with me." Winter's voice snapped Ruby at attention as she sat up straight.

"May I ask why?"

"I'll tell you when you get here." Winter answered cryptically.

Ruby raised a brow but, got up from her seat and left. Yang saw this and could only wonder why her little sister was leaving.

Ruby however saw a completely different scene, the same woman who was clapping dramatically was now smiling menacingly down at the ring.

Ruby couldn't shake the feeling off of dread but, right now Winter needed her first.


In a fancy looking twilit pavilion area of ivy covered pillars, arched entries, and lion statues as fountains, Ruby was awaiting for Winter as this was the meeting place.

"Ruby, I see you are getting more punctual by the day." Ruby saw her elder adoptive sister warmly smile at her.

"I learn from the best!" Ruby cheerfully answered Winter.

Winter arched a brow, " Do we now?"

Ruby just grinned at her, then smiled, then finally it was a serious tone. "Why am I needed here?"

"Oh just my dear little sister will be coming and she can be a bit," Winter paused and looked as if she were contemplating, " cranky." She giggled a bit finishing her sentence.

Ruby cracked a smile at Winter's rare giggling moments.

To Weiss it seemed to make her heart clench. Seeing that this red themed brat acted more like Winter than Weiss her own blood! Weiss had a storm of questions swimming around her head such as ," Why is she kinder to Ruby?" and, "Why is she here in the first place!?"

"You're leaving?" She decided to break her unhealthy train of thoughts.

Winter silenced and attended to Weiss's attention, motioning Weiss to sit in front of her. Ruby was at Winter's left shoulder.

Taking a sip of her carefully brewed coffee, she gracefully sat it back down, "Yes, Ruby and I were merely needed to oversee the transport of additional units to Vale. Our last shipment was lost in an ambush. I believe you had a run-in with its cargo, actually. It's fortunate those Paladins were in the prototype stage," Winter took another break to sip from her cup. " Otherwise your team may not have fared so well." Weiss seems agitated, sighing she looks down knowing her sister is right, as always. " Weiss, you've done...well, out here on your own. You should be proud. I'll be honest, it was quite amusing seeing Father's face the day you left for Beacon!" Winter chuckled at the memory that she was surely having a look back into.

That seemed to lighten up Weiss's frustration, straightening up and smiling now, arms crossed, " I can't wait to show him what I learned." She announced confidently.

"Oh? Then what do think you've learned?"

Averting her gaze from Winter's, Weiss answers, "What do you mean? I'm getting better and better with my glyphs! I've even started Time Dilation!"

Winter stares straight into her younger sister's eyes daring her to lie. "And what of your Summoning?"

"I," Once again Weiss evades looking into her sister's expecting eyes," you know I can't."

Winter frowned upon hearing her sister say so. "Don't be ridiculous. Every Schnee has the ability to summon. We have for generations."

Ruby was not confused as Winter had explained her family's passed down summoning ability. Ruby was only worried about Weiss.

"I've tried! It's just...it's the one thing I'm having trouble with!" Weiss cried. She hated admitting her failures in front of people and especially in front of her sister.

"We Schnees are unique. Unlike many, our semblance is hereditary. But that doesn't mean it will come easily." Winter demonstrates by summoning a ball on to her hand. "Your semblance is like a muscle. The more you practice with it, the stronger it will become. But if you only focus on one aspect of it..." The ball that Winter had summoned suddenly expanded into a bright flash, causing both Ruby and Weiss to look away before looking back in awe as there stood a baby blue Beowolf before them. " If you fail to test the limits of what you think is possible then, you'll never truly grow."

Ruby's eyes gleam in admiration while Weiss smiles at the display of power she hopes to reach.


Winter has been watching and helping Weiss train as Ruby only shadowed in the background.

She has a nice stance but, inexperienced at most. Examined Ruby as she watched Weiss.

"Rubes!"

"Yes?"

"Come here." Commanded Winter.

"Of course." Ruby strode across to reach Winter as she was told to do so.

"What do you think of Weiss's fighting figure?" Winter asked, nodding at Weiss who was still trying to summon. Little did Winter and Ruby know, Weiss was listening.

"I think that her stance is inexperienced, full of openings and has a lack of focus."

Winter's face seemed to be agreeing with Ruby which infuriated Weiss.

"Like you're any better!" Weiss finally snapped.

"You're just a child, do you even understand that you are risking your life to fight monsters?! This isn't a fairy tale!" Weiss's arms shot up in exasperation.

Ruby's brows furrowed not in worry but in anger, "Look you snotty princess, I am the youngest soldier AND student EVER to be admitted to Atlas and quite frankly I am better than you!" As to make her point more intimidating, she shoved a finger right onto the heiress's chest.

"How are you better than me?! You seem like a child that snuck her way into Atlas!" Weiss screeched.

"Enough!" Winter stepped between her two sisters and pushed them apart before they were at each other's hairs. "Weiss, what brought this on?!" Winter demanded an answer.

"Why do you treat her better than me?!Why is she always around you?!"

"She has been under my care since the beginning of the school cycle, she is my responsibility, so of course I would warm up to her. Second, she is always around me because, as I said before she is under my care, my subordinate." Winter concluded, or so she thought.

Weiss huffed," How is she better than me?! I am Weiss Schnee Heiress to Schnee Dust Company!" Winter sighed heavily knowing that this was bound to happen sooner or later.

" Ruby Rose, age 15, statues as of right now are student and part time soldier, missions successfully completed are 132, Grimm kills are at 2789, kills is currently sitting at a 2." Winter listed off all the information on Ruby's file.

"As you can tell Ruby here, is an experienced soldier on the field and a great huntress in training, she can complete missions without so much as killing one person if possible." Winter smirked at Weiss's flabbergasted face.

"Thank you, sis!" Ruby grinned.

"How is that possible?" Weiss asked almost to herself.

"With my baby." Ruby said as she pulled out her scythe.

"You wield the most dangerous weapon to ever be handled." Weiss couldn't believe it, what couldn't the girl do. Oh she knew.

"What about her grades?" Weiss internally smiled wickedly.

"They are disappointing." Winter said in a serious manner.

Ruby looked down in shame as she fiddled with her cape.

"She has a 99 on dust class." Winter said with a face full of disapproval.

"Wha-" Weiss was done for, the girl had everything, grades, experience, talent, the blonde bimbo-

"Weiss?" Winter's stern yet concerned voice broke her train of thought.

"What?"

"Are you well?"

"Yes...yes of course." Weiss had to rethink her whole life at that moment.


"Hey~ Ice Queen, right?"

"It's Winter." Winter gritted through her teeth.

"Okay, yeah whatever Ice Queen, I came here to ask you something." Yang waved her hand dismissing Winter's seething answer.

"What. Is. It."

"Why are you so close to my sister?" Yang's lilac eyes turned to crimson the second she had blinked.

"I am as close to your sister because we are adoptive sisters." Winter answered, unfazed by Yang's change in demeanor.

"But I am her sister, flesh and blood!"

"Ruby and I share an unbreakable bond in the battlefield and outside, we keep each other of the floor, we keep each other from each other's nightmares, like it or not Xiao Long, Ruby and I are like sisters or mother and daughter." Winter growled at Yang who's hair was getting dimmer at every spoken word and at the end her eyes had changed back to her lilac irises.

"I'm sorry, I just really missed her, you know?" The blonde brawler's voice cracked as she pleaded for forgiveness.

"I do understand." Winter gave Yang a forgiving, melancholy smile as she took a hold of Yang into a warm embrace.

"Ruby won't replace you, she talks about you all the time Yang." Winter reassured the teen in her arms.

"I'm glad." Tears streamed down Yang's cheeks but, they were joyful tears of not being replaced.

"Thank you."


"Are you sure, Ozpin?" Ironwood asked Ozpin who was sitting at his desk with his fingers interlaced in front of him.

"James, the real question is are you sure about it."

Ironwood walked back and placed the physical copy of Ruby's picture down on Ozpin's desk.

"I'm sure."


A/N: Whaaaat?! Denny updates twice on ONE week, woah I think I just was a flying pig! jk but for real tho have a great morning, noon, or afternoon and hope you enjoy the chapter.